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User Experience Requirements and Interface Design for the TouristHub Trip Planning Platform

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Design, User Experience, and Usability. Case Studies in Public and Personal Interactive Systems (HCII 2020)

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This paper outlines the user requirements and the design of the interface components and the interactions of the TouristHub web-based trip planning platform that aims to assist travelers in planning personalized trips. The paper concentrates in the research challenges and the methods used to elicit information from users and other stakeholders and thus construct a set of functional requirements for guiding the design of the platform. It also summarizes a number of use-cases and presents in detail the interface components of the TouristHub trip planning platform.

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This research has been co-financed by the European Union and Greek national funds through the Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, under the call RESEARCH – CREATE – INNOVATE (project code: T1EDK-01572).

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  1. Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of the Aegean, Syros, Greece

    Modestos Stavrakis, Damianos Gavalas, Panayiotis Koutsabasis & Spyros Vosinakis

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Stavrakis, M., Gavalas, D., Koutsabasis, P., Vosinakis, S. (2020). User Experience Requirements and Interface Design for the TouristHub Trip Planning Platform. In: Marcus, A., Rosenzweig, E. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability. Case Studies in Public and Personal Interactive Systems. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12202. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49757-6_48

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